Mike Norman Economics

JD.com, the third-largest tech company in the world behind Amazon and Google's parent company Alphabet, is focusing on hundreds of isolated villages in rural China as it has hired 85,000 delivery personnel, and focusing on locals to do its bidding in ramping up online shopping, a relatively new concept for the region, according to The New Yorker's Jiayang Fan. Bold. AxiosWhat we're reading: JD.com is leapfrogging rural China into online shopping Marisa Fernandez

Bernie flames out. He is either brainless, or an agent of the US deep state. Likely, brainless, which became clear when he did not listen to Stephanie Kelton after appoint her economic adviser. Is there anyone else on the US left (global center right) with promise, that is, groks both domestic and foreign issues? Most of them are clueless about economics and members of the war party. Sad.Common DreamsBernie Sanders: Trump 'Really Sold the American People Out' in Helsinki Summit Jake...

Brennan in the crosshairs? I don't link to the WSJ since it is behind a paywall. ZH recounts the latest there.Zero Hedge"Truth Was Irrelevant" WSJ Asks: Was Brennan's Action The Real "Treason"? Tyler Durden

Sputnik International'Soros Brilliant, But Evil': Bannon to Rival Open Society Foundations in Europe Deutsche WelleUS-Rechtspopulist Steve Bannon plant rechte Bewegung in Europa [US right-wing populist Steve Bannon plans a right-wing movement in Europe] (I didn't find an English there on their English site. It did not turn up in a web search either.)

[embedded content] Tucker Calson and Stephen Cohen expose the Russiagate myth. Cohen says the liberals are risking WW3.

The InterceptEcuador Will Imminently Withdraw Asylum for Julian Assange and Hand Him Over to the UK. What Comes Next? Glenn Greenwald Caitlin Johnstone — Rogue JournalistBe Prepared To Shake The Earth If Julian Assange Is ArrestedCaitlin Johnstone

While in the UK, at the moment, those that criticise Israel's policies towards the Palestinians and believe Israel is a rogue ststate are getting called racists and antisemitic, Israel is arming the racist, white supremacist Neo- Nazis thugs in the Ukraine on behalf of the US, which due to current legislation has been banned from doing so itself. If I call this out, would I get called antisemitic and a racist? [embedded content]    A shocking new report in the Electronic Intifada reveals...

Frank Li is a Chinese ex-pat that settled in America after receiving a PhD in the US. He is an electrical engineer and entrepreneur.His take is informed from both the Chinese and American (Western) points of view and he offers a reasonably objective analysis in comparison to the largely one-sided and ill-informed one that one generally encounters in the West. His work covers the social, political and economic spectrum but this one focuses on economics. The dramatic rise of China over the...

This is good, Thomas Frank describes everything that is wrong with the Democratic Party and where it went wrong. It took the working class vote for granted and decided to represent instead the upward mobile class  of professionals who are very liberal on social values, but very right wing on economic issues. These people have top degrees and believe in the meritocracy and so have no sympathy for those poorer than themselves believing it's their own fault they got left behind.These aspiring...

Sam Seder says that Jimmy Dore does not get his facts right and is spreading fake news, and he also criticises Glenn Greenweld for trying to expose the Russiagate nonsense. I'm disappointing with Sam Seder who seems to support the  mainstream Democrats while is spreading Russiagate lies.I can't see anything wrong in the Jimmy Dore video - all truth. Why wasn't Hilary's server allowed to be inspected by the FBI? How can Sam Seder not find this suspicious? [embedded content] Despite recent...